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The Gilbert Adair files:
Double takes – Heurtebise
Winter 1984 to Summer 1985
Adair’s pseudonymous contributions to Sight & Sound’s Double Takes column, from our Gilbert Adair tribute trove
The Ms-fits Prize fighting
This year’s Best Actress race inspires Nick James’s best clairvoyant impersonation
Fight for rights, will to power:
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Greg Tate explores the shifting struggles for black equality – and identity – presented in a new narrated documentary montage of footage found in the Swedish television archives
Persona non grata: Lars von Trier’s Nazi rebellion Behind the news
Lars von Trier’s controversial outburst in Cannes this year was not entirely out of character, finds Nick James
The land still lies: Handsworth Songs and the English riots Out of the archive
Mark Fisher reflects on a screening of Handsworth Songs, the Black Audio Film Collective’s 1986 essay on black Britain, in the wake of this summer’s wave of civil unrest
Playing pirates
Music video blog
David Knight hijacks the airwaves to show today’s kids a thing or two
Revenge of the fleshpit!
Annals of cinemas
Mark Pilkington remembers the Scala, London’s classiest and trashiest cinema
Women on film: inspirations part six – Films (and a cinema) Competition entries
Our female film-writers’ competition entrants’ celluloid and concrete inspirations, from Autumn Leaves to Hasting’s Electric Palace cinema
Women on film: inspirations part five – Characters Competition entries
Our female film-writers’ competition entrants’ world-of-fiction inspirations, from horror’s ‘final girl’ Laurie Strode to Up the Junction’s Polly Dean
Egypt’s revolutions on film
Guest column
As Egypt forges itself anew, Omar Kholeif looks back at representations of nationalist revolution in its cinematic history
The three o’clock rite: Ingmar Bergman’s home cinema Guest column
Lena Bergman remembers the viewing habits of her father Ingmar Bergman in his unique private cinema, a converted barn on Fårö, the Baltic island where he lived until his death in 2007
Women on film: inspirations part four – Other collaborators, crew – and critics Competition entries
Our female film-writers’ competition entrants on their behind-the-camera inspirations, from cinematographer Robert Krasker to Alfred Hitchcock’s wife Alma Reville
Quick cuts and slow change: experimental film’s fate Comment
Laura Allsop on how the Arts Council funding cuts will affect experimental filmmaking in the UK
Women on film: inspirations part three – Directors K-W Competition entries
Amateur female film critics salute directors from Krzysztof Kieslowski to Billy Wilder
Women on film: inspirations part two – Directors A-H Competition entries
More submissions from our female film writers’ competition mailbag: nominations from Chantal Akerman to Alfred Hitchcock
Women on film: inspirations part one – Actors Competition entries
The best of the entries to our competition for female film writers – including paeans to Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Margaret Sullavan, Haley Mills, Helena Ignez, Emma Thompson and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Critics’ inspirations Women on film
Our female writers offer thumbnail descriptions of their own film-world inspirations
Women on film, online Women on film
Sophie Mayer follows the trail of female film critics into the digital realm, finding both community and quandries
The ladies vanished Women on film
Hannah McGill wonders where all the women critics went – and why
Someone’s got to do it Music video blog
Pop promo impresario David Knight introduces his inaugural online column for Sight & Sound
Antonioni: the afterlife
Chris Darke pursues the spirit of the late Italian master through recent films, plays and books
The end of prestige?
The UK Film Council may be dead. Miramax is pensioned off. Nick James reads the entrails of ‘quality’ cinema in the Digital Age
Rough cuts
Nick James reacts to news of the abolition of the UK Film Council, and warns against axing our already struggling art-film sector
Nitrate: the smouldering screen
Kevin Browlow remembers when the silver screen really glistened
That was then, this is now: British television’s new writing talents
You might not have noticed, but the past ten years saw the advent of a new ‘golden generation’ of British television-drama writers. So says Mark Duguid, looking back at the decade’s key works
Movies to Mohammad: Mark Cousins’
The First Movie
Mark Cousins on bringing video cameras and projectors to the children of Goptapa in northern Iraq
We have always recycled: Rick Prelinger on the rise of ‘archive fever’
Mark Cousins on bringing video cameras and projectors to the children of Goptapa in northern Iraq
Not forgotten: For Cultural Purposes Only
Palestinian writer Adania Shibli finds her own memories stirred by Sarah Wood’s filmic remembering and redrawing of the lost Palestinian Film Archive